Dossier: Chris Marker

ARTICLE

The Mind's Eye: Chris Marker Level Five

By Allan Francovich


In Marker's films, light caught in emulsion floats like oil on water, burns off in the darkness of the mind stopped dead between frames, so having time to think, before being washed over by more pictures.
INTERVIEW

Interview with Chris Marker

By Dolores Walfisch


There's been a great deal of talk, recently, about a CD-ROM on World War 2. Look up Okinawa. It says, "There were about 100,000 casualties, including numerous civilians...” which is doubly wrong.
ARTICLE

Once More, into the Zone... Chris Marker Looks Back, in Wonder

By Chris Darke


Back in 1966, Chris Marker made a film called Si j’avais quatre dromadaires in which an amateur photographer (Marker incognito) and his two friends muse in voice-over at the portfolio of stills the globetrotting lens man has brought back...
ESSAY

The Interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker into Contemporary Visual Art

By David Brancaleone


In 1997 Chris Marker held an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Immemory One and Godard showed Voyage(s) en utopies: Jean-Luc Godard, 1946-2006, in the same place.